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Kalinka Iglesias
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• Translator of Nordic & Viking/Medieval stuff
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techwontsave.us
🚨 THE FINAL EIGHT 🚨

We’ve made it to the quarter finals — only two days away from crowning a winner for Worst Person in Tech 2025.

Don’t miss your chance to vote!

🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/wpit2025-qf
Bracket showing 32 names narrowed down to a top 8.
December 17, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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atrae.bsky.social
A veces hay que decir basta. Desde ATRAE, nos plantamos ante la precarización de nuestro sector, agravada con el auge de la IA generativa. Echa un vistazo a los vídeos de la campaña, firma nuestro manifiesto por una traducción humana y, sobre todo, ¡haz que corra la voz! www.traduccionhumana.com ✊📣
November 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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sifu.tweety.fish
since the "google is now training gemini on your email contents" thing keeps bumping around here: it's _not happening_. I say this not to defend google but because I know a lot of people that have broken their filtering and made their lives much more annoying from sheer misinformation.
awest.uk Andrew West @awest.uk · Nov 22
The malwarebytes Google opting-your-emails-into-ai-training thing is not true. The post is based on one bad tweet.

I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.

www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
Google denies ‘misleading’ reports of Gmail using your emails to train AI
Google says “we do not use your Gmail content for training our Gemini AI model.”
www.theverge.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:30 PM
bifrost-translations.com
Huff.
November 20, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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kode24.no
– Kultur er bare én ting: At mennesker gjør ting for andre mennesker, mener @fluhartberg.bsky.social.

Nå danner de @kikinorge.bsky.social – en organisasjon som skal få oss mer bevisst på KI-bruken her til lands. ✊

– Vi vil at menneskeskapt kunst alltid skal ha forrang.
Ny protest­gruppe mot KI: – Vi må rope varsko
Kunstnerisk Initiativ for regulering av Kunstig Intelligens (KIKI) vil bevisstgjøre både deg og politikerne. – Dette kan ikke vare evig, mener Flu Hartberg.
www.kode24.no
November 19, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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fluhartberg.bsky.social
I sitt forslag til statsbudsjett foreslår Arbeiderpartiet milliarder til satsning på KI. Digitaliseringsministeren virker både naiv og nyfrelst. Nå må noen dra i bremsen her!!! Godt skrevet av Forsberg:
magnusforsberg.no Forsberg™ @magnusforsberg.no · Oct 26
Dette er en stor dag for meg! Min spalte nummer hundre som spaltist for @dagsavisen.bsky.social!

Jeg skriver om KI-boomen sett gjennom svindelens briller. Har vi egentlig råd til å være det mest lettlurte offeret for amerikanske tek-sjarlataner?

Del gjerne, så flest mulig LLMer skraper teksten!
Pass deg, tek-sjarlatanene kommer
Hvem blir lurt i vår tids største svindel?
www.dagsavisen.no
October 26, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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jonasbals.bsky.social
Antifa.
September 22, 2025 at 6:24 PM
bifrost-translations.com
En vez de seguir leyendo debates y comentarios tóxicos por las redes sociales, concedeos una pausa repleta de deleite traductoril: vasoscomunicantes.ace-traductores.org/2020/11/02/u...
Una pilingui anacrónica - Vasos Comunicantes | Revista de ACE Traductores
Lunes, 2 de noviembre de 2020.  CENTÓN confeccionado con las participaciones de los socios en la lista de distribución de ACE TRADUCTORES durante el pasado mes de agosto.  Itziar Hernández Rodilla: Qu...
vasoscomunicantes.ace-traductores.org
September 12, 2025 at 9:27 AM
bifrost-translations.com
«Most workers said they avoid using LLMs or use extensions to block AI summaries because they now know how it’s built.»
hypervisible.blacksky.app Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Sep 11
“AI isn’t magic; it’s a pyramid scheme of human labor,” said Adio Dinika, a researcher at the Distributed AI Research Institute…These raters are the middle rung: invisible, essential and expendable.”
How thousands of ‘overworked, underpaid’ humans train Google’s AI to seem smart
Contracted AI raters describe grueling deadlines, poor pay and opacity around work to make chatbots intelligent
www.theguardian.com
September 11, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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jensorensen.bsky.social
This week's comic, inspired by a study showing that AI summaries on top of search results are dramatically cutting traffic to websites.
WEB'S END IN THE BEGINNING, THERE WERE WEBSITES. YOU VISITED THEM AND IT WAS FUN. Computer screen: Jill's Homepage LINKS AND STUMBLEUPON HELPED YOU FIND NEW ONES. Computer screen: Cheese Art GOOGLE ACTUALLY WORKED AND SENT YOU TO SITES BUILT WITH CARE BY REAL PEOPLE. Computer screen: Lovable Expert THEN CAME SOCIAL MEDIA, AND ITS ALGORITHMS DETERMINED WHAT YOU CLICKED. Computer screen: Facebook THEN AGGREGATOR SITES TOOK OFF. Computer screen: CRAP FROM AROUND THE WEB THEN SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANIES TRIED TO KEEP US FROM EVER LEAVING… AND WE DIDN'T. Woman on phone: SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL THEN AI BEGAN GENERATING SUMMARIES SO YOU DIDN'T NEED TO CLICK THROUGH TO A SITE ANYMORE. Computer screen: MONOPOSEARCH Summary SOON... THE AI CHATBOT BECOMES THE ONLY SOURCE OF INFORMATION AND REAL PUBLICATIONS DISAPPEAR. Woman speaking to phone: CHATBOT, WHAT IS A WEBSITE? UNTIL ONE DAY, PEOPLE WALK AWAY AND BUILD SOMETHING NEW. Woman has left devices on the ground and is walking into sunset © 2025 Jen Sorensen
August 30, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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parismarx.com
fellow authors, it’s our duty to financially ruin the AI industry
arstechnica.com Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · Aug 27
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
August 27, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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tilbarrikadene.bsky.social
Minnemarkeringer for Tamima Nibras Juhar blir søndag 31. august:

13:00-13:30 stillemarkering på Kampen torg
14:00 rosetog fra Youngstorget. Alle oppfordres til å gå i gult og ta med en gul rose.

Still opp om du kan, spre uansett. La oss vise motstand mot rasisme, alle sammen.
August 27, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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jonasbals.bsky.social
August 23, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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bcmerchant.bsky.social
Since 2023, translators and interpreters have seen work dry up, rates plummet and their jobs reduced to editing AI-generated output. Some are leaving the field, others are considering bankruptcy. All despite any major upgrade in translation quality.

This is how AI is killing translation work:
AI Killed My Job: Translators
Few industries have been hit by AI as hard as translation. Rates are plummeting. Work is drying up. Translators are considering abandoning the field, or bankruptcy. These are their stories.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
August 21, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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bcmerchant.bsky.social
I'm preparing to publish the next installment of AI Killed My Job. This time, the focus will be on translators.

If you or someone you know has had a translation job (including translator, interpreter, game localizer, etc) impacted by AI, and you'd like to share, please do: [email protected]
bcmerchant.bsky.social Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · Jun 26
AI is being used to justify firing workers at major tech companies, leaving those that remain to pick up the pieces.

AI code is being shoveled into crucial Google products, replacing trainers at TikTok, and worse.

This, in tech workers' own words, is how AI is killing jobs in Silicon Valley.
AI Killed My Job: Tech workers
Tech workers at TikTok, Google, and across the industry share stories about how AI is changing, ruining, or replacing their jobs.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
August 18, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
AI filmmaking is peeing. It’s pooping. It’s throwing up. It’s a new kind of liquid coming out. It’s hated by the establishment. It’s what goes in the toilet. It’s wet. It’s what’s in the bathroom.
AI filmmaking and storytelling is punk rock. It’s hip hop. It’s counterculture. It’s a new type of creativity. It’s a new medium. It’s hated by the mainstream film and art establishment. It resists ideology. It ignores gate keeping. It’s uncomfortable. It’s scary. It’s viral. It’s accessible. It’s refreshing. It’s welcoming. It’s here.
August 6, 2025 at 1:48 AM
bifrost-translations.com
Todo sería tan sencillo si, por analogía, pudiéramos poner un acento al pronombre "ti". La redundancia lingüística no es precisamente una rareza, sino al contrario. Y las normas ortográficas no vienen dictadas por una ley natural, las deciden unos seño- — perdón; una institución.
August 5, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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aftermath.site
‘An overwhelmingly negative and demoralizing force’: what it's like working for a company that's forcing AI on its developers:

aftermath.site/ai-video-game-...
July 1, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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relativelypainlessgames.com
📣Casting call (paid)!📣

We're looking for voice actors for our upcoming point & click adventure game "Uncle Lee's Cookbook: Five Recipes for Disaster".

#Audition ends on July 1st at 11pm Pacific Time.

Details: relativelypainlessgames.com/auditions/

#castingCall #voiceActor
Game sprites of the characters we're casting. From left to right: Ines, young Ines, Joe, uncle Lee.
June 24, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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dozygay.bsky.social
Hungary banned anything that “promotes homosexuality,” which means Pride.

However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
June 28, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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bcmerchant.bsky.social
AI is being used to justify firing workers at major tech companies, leaving those that remain to pick up the pieces.

AI code is being shoveled into crucial Google products, replacing trainers at TikTok, and worse.

This, in tech workers' own words, is how AI is killing jobs in Silicon Valley.
AI Killed My Job: Tech workers
Tech workers at TikTok, Google, and across the industry share stories about how AI is changing, ruining, or replacing their jobs.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
June 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
bifrost-translations.com
Estaba intentando acordarme de las palabras «El sueño de la razón produce monstruos» y en vez de eso, mi cerebro me saca del archivo «el orden de los factores no altera el producto». Creo que necesito más vacaciones.
June 25, 2025 at 11:03 AM
bifrost-translations.com
Just popping in to say people are still dying in Gaza.
June 23, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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astrokatie.com
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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parismarx.com
grok costs $1 billion a month. imagine all the much better uses that money could go to if we didn’t have to collectively chase the fantasies of tech billionaires.
peark.es George Pearkes @peark.es · Jun 17
LOL yeah I hope they're raising equity.

*MUSK’S XAI BURNING THROUGH $1 BILLION A MONTH AS COSTS PILE UP
(Bloomberg) -- Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI is trying to raise $9.3 billion in debt and equity, but even before the money is in the bank the company has plans to spend more than half of it in just the next three months, according to deal terms shared with investors. The rate at which the company is raising funds and tearing through cash offers a stark illustration of the unprecedented financial demands of the artificial intelligence industry, and the relatively meager revenues it is bringing in so far, at least when it comes to xAI. Musk’s startup, which is responsible for the AI-powered chatbot Grok, expects to burn through about $13 billion over the course of 2025, or more than $1 billion each month, as reflected in the company’s levered cash flow, according to the people familiar with the deal terms who asked not to be identified because the information is private.  As a result, its prolific fundraising efforts are just barely keeping pace with expenses, the people added.  A spokesperson for the company declined to comment.
June 17, 2025 at 6:03 PM